Dhaka International University

Department of Civil Engineering

Assignment
In-text citation in APA, MLA & Chicago

 Submitted By Submitted To
 Name: Md Ariful Islam Shamim Hamide,PHD
 Roll: 02 Faculty Member Of the Department of
Sociology
 Reg: CE-E-33-20-113037
 Trimester: 7th
 Batch: 33rd (eve)
 Date: 04/02/2022
 What is in-text citation in APA?
 An in-text citation is a reference made within the body of text of an academic
essay. The in-text citation alerts the reader to a source that has informed your
own writing.
 The exact format of an in-text citation will depend on the style you need to use,
for example, APA. Check with your academic institution to ensure you provide the
in-text citations in the format they are expecting and use Cite This For Me’s
citation generator to create them for you, automatically.
Structure:
Quote or paraphrase (Author’s surname, Year of publication, p.#).
For example:
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us,” said Gandalf (Tolkien,
1954, p. 20).
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 Include an in-text citation when you refer to, summarize, paraphrase, or

quote from another source. For every in-text citation in your paper, there
must be a corresponding entry in your reference list.
 MLA in-text citation style uses the author's last name and the page number
from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken, for example: (Smith 163).
If the source does not use page numbers, do not include a number in the
parenthetical citation: (Smith).
 For more information on in-text citation, see the MLA Style Center.
 Example paragraph with in-text citation
 A few researchers in the linguistics field have developed training programs
designed to improve native speakers' ability to understand accented
speech (Derwing et al. 246; Thomas 15).
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 The Chicago style, when referring to a source of information within

the text of a document, in its simplest form, gives a short citation
consisting of the name of the author (or authors) and the date of
publication. The short references within the text are given wholly or
partly in round brackets.
 Example:
 • A citation for a book appearing in the text as:
 There are many reasons for intestinal scarring (Ogilvie 1998, 26-28).
 would be found in the reference list in the following form:
 Ogilvie, Timothy H. 1998. Large Animal Internal Medicine. Baltimore, MD:
Williams and Wilkins.